Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

Film screening

Donna Haraway is one of the most important feminist thinkers and historians of science of our time. Her writings radically scrutinize established thought patterns and “common sense,” dissolving constructed boundaries of gender, humans and technology as well as culture and nature. Fabrizio Terranova has made a playful documentary film about Haraway, her biography, influences and ideas, which takes us on a journey through her world of thought. Over the course of several weeks, filmmaker Fabrizio Terranova visited her and her dog Cayenne at their home in Southern California and captured their conversations on camera. In the film, Haraway not only demonstrates her special talent for creating stories, but also paints a radically positive picture of the future that can inspire hope. In addition to the interviews, the film also consists of archive material and imaginative green screen animations, which translate the thinking of this exceptional theorist into the format of a documentary film in an appropriately idiosyncratic way.

Artists

Participating artists

Donna Haraway is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology, a feminist, and a science-fiction enthusiast who works at building a bridge between science and fiction. She became known in the 1980s through her work on gender, identity, and technology, which broke with the prevailing trends and opened the door to a frank and cheerful trans species feminism. Haraway is a gifted storyteller who paints a rebellious and hopeful universe teeming with critters and trans species, in an era of disasters.

Fabrizio Terranova is filmmaker, activist and dramaturge and teaches at École de Recherché Graphique in Brussels. He is director of the film Josée Andréï, An Insane Portrait, published as a book by Les Éditions du Soufflé. He is a founding member of DingDingDong, an institute compilinginformation about the Huntington’s disease. His latest film Isabelle Stengers, Fabriquer de l’espoir au bord du gouffre (2023) is dedicated to the essential Belgian philosopher and science theorist.